Re: Sharia Law in NWFP
Sure
In Mighty Saudi Arabia, a woman was gang raped and then she was sentenced to lashes, this would never happen in Saladin's time
Saladin openly welcomed Jews and Christian to the holy land and respected their culture and religion where as your champions the Taliban would consider that a sacrilege
Women right's in Saladin's time were much more free than in Taliban Nazis
and on and on and on
but don't concern yourself with such matters
I am just curious when you are going to move to Talibanland and live with your fellow Nazis?
Well Mercenary2k you have a point here, but only due to the reason that you have seen "Kingdom of Heavens" with the good projection of a muslim leader and that in a hollywood production for the first time. And yet you kept It in your mind as best memories of a muslim leader as ever.
Quite fascinating for you (which I can understand) but the laws you are refering to of have been used in past by a lot other muslim leaders as well, but non are ever to be mentioned in hollywood movies neither in western story books.
Nevertheless, It is true that KSA has changed the shariah laws on their behalf, but so have other leaders too.
The great difference was that the Sauds with Abdul Wahhabs major influence gave Shariah a very "conservative touch".
And as we speak of It. Why was there never enough pressure by the US of A + Canada on KSA to adopt democracy instead of ruling the country under monarchic system and that with a Shariah Law? Just to make you understand my worries.
Shariah laws and monarch don't fit together and a monarchic system is an insult on Islam and can never work as combination ever!